US4744679A - Plastic cage for a rolling bearing - Google Patents

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US4744679A
US4744679A US06/907,396 US90739686A US4744679A US 4744679 A US4744679 A US 4744679A US 90739686 A US90739686 A US 90739686A US 4744679 A US4744679 A US 4744679A
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16C—SHAFTS; FLEXIBLE SHAFTS; ELEMENTS OR CRANKSHAFT MECHANISMS; ROTARY BODIES OTHER THAN GEARING ELEMENTS; BEARINGS
    • F16C33/00—Parts of bearings; Special methods for making bearings or parts thereof
    • F16C33/30—Parts of ball or roller bearings
    • F16C33/46—Cages for rollers or needles
    • F16C33/56—Selection of substances
    • F16C33/565—Coatings
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16C—SHAFTS; FLEXIBLE SHAFTS; ELEMENTS OR CRANKSHAFT MECHANISMS; ROTARY BODIES OTHER THAN GEARING ELEMENTS; BEARINGS
    • F16C33/00—Parts of bearings; Special methods for making bearings or parts thereof
    • F16C33/30—Parts of ball or roller bearings
    • F16C33/38—Ball cages
    • F16C33/41—Ball cages comb-shaped
    • F16C33/412—Massive or moulded comb cages, e.g. snap ball cages
    • F16C33/414—Massive or moulded comb cages, e.g. snap ball cages formed as one-piece cages, i.e. monoblock comb cages
    • F16C33/416—Massive or moulded comb cages, e.g. snap ball cages formed as one-piece cages, i.e. monoblock comb cages made from plastic, e.g. injection moulded comb cages
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16C—SHAFTS; FLEXIBLE SHAFTS; ELEMENTS OR CRANKSHAFT MECHANISMS; ROTARY BODIES OTHER THAN GEARING ELEMENTS; BEARINGS
    • F16C33/00—Parts of bearings; Special methods for making bearings or parts thereof
    • F16C33/30—Parts of ball or roller bearings
    • F16C33/38—Ball cages
    • F16C33/41—Ball cages comb-shaped
    • F16C33/418—Details of individual pockets, e.g. shape or ball retaining means
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16C—SHAFTS; FLEXIBLE SHAFTS; ELEMENTS OR CRANKSHAFT MECHANISMS; ROTARY BODIES OTHER THAN GEARING ELEMENTS; BEARINGS
    • F16C33/00—Parts of bearings; Special methods for making bearings or parts thereof
    • F16C33/30—Parts of ball or roller bearings
    • F16C33/38—Ball cages
    • F16C33/44—Selection of substances
    • F16C33/445—Coatings
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16C—SHAFTS; FLEXIBLE SHAFTS; ELEMENTS OR CRANKSHAFT MECHANISMS; ROTARY BODIES OTHER THAN GEARING ELEMENTS; BEARINGS
    • F16C33/00—Parts of bearings; Special methods for making bearings or parts thereof
    • F16C33/30—Parts of ball or roller bearings
    • F16C33/46—Cages for rollers or needles
    • F16C33/4617—Massive or moulded cages having cage pockets surrounding the rollers, e.g. machined window cages
    • F16C33/4623—Massive or moulded cages having cage pockets surrounding the rollers, e.g. machined window cages formed as one-piece cages, i.e. monoblock cages
    • F16C33/4635—Massive or moulded cages having cage pockets surrounding the rollers, e.g. machined window cages formed as one-piece cages, i.e. monoblock cages made from plastic, e.g. injection moulded window cages
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16C—SHAFTS; FLEXIBLE SHAFTS; ELEMENTS OR CRANKSHAFT MECHANISMS; ROTARY BODIES OTHER THAN GEARING ELEMENTS; BEARINGS
    • F16C33/00—Parts of bearings; Special methods for making bearings or parts thereof
    • F16C33/30—Parts of ball or roller bearings
    • F16C33/46—Cages for rollers or needles
    • F16C33/467—Details of individual pockets, e.g. shape or roller retaining means
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16C—SHAFTS; FLEXIBLE SHAFTS; ELEMENTS OR CRANKSHAFT MECHANISMS; ROTARY BODIES OTHER THAN GEARING ELEMENTS; BEARINGS
    • F16C2206/00—Materials with ceramics, cermets, hard carbon or similar non-metallic hard materials as main constituents
    • F16C2206/40—Ceramics, e.g. carbides, nitrides, oxides, borides of a metal
    • F16C2206/58—Ceramics, e.g. carbides, nitrides, oxides, borides of a metal based on ceramic nitrides
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S384/00—Bearings
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    • Y10S384/912—Metallic

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  • the invention relates to a plastic cage for a rolling bearing.
  • a cage In many rolling bearings, a cage is an essential part, to hold the rolling elements separate in the bearing.
  • a bearing cage consists of an annular body in which, by one method or another, openings are formed, wholly enclosed or otherwise, at equal intervals from each other on the peripheral surface, which openings each embrace a rolling element in assembled condition.
  • the peripheral surface of the annular body need not necessarily be cylindrical, but may alternatively be conical in axial direction.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 represent cages for given rolling bearings by way of example.
  • Most cages may advantageously be made of a plastic, such material being highly suitable for the purpose by reason of its physical properties and because of considerations of manufacture.
  • the cause of these defects lies in the embedding of comparatively hard foreign particles in the comparatively soft material of the cage, which particles may penetrate into the bearing, particularly by way of the lubricant, these particles exerting a cutting or chipping action on the rolling elements of the bearing, damaging these to such an extent that the bearing becomes prematurely unserviceable.
  • a solution has been provided to this problem, in that at least a portion of the cage is provided with a surface layer of a comparatively hard material, which layer is formed on a surface of the cage preferably by means of ionic discharge or ion implantation.
  • the layer consists of chromium nitride, since then only comparatively low temperatures need be employed during the spray discharge, which temperatures can be readily withstood by cages of a plastic material.
  • plastic automobile parts may be provided with a decorative chromium layer by spray technology, as it is called.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 show two embodiments of rolling bearing cages according to the invention by way of example, which cages are provided at least on the insides 1 and 2 of the openings 3 and 4 respectively with a surface layer of chromium nitride produced by spray discharge.
  • the openings 3 and 4 embrace the rolling elements of the bearing to keep the elements separate from each other.

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US4804276A (en) * 1987-02-25 1989-02-14 Skf Gmbh Cage for a rolling bearing
US4878570A (en) * 1988-01-25 1989-11-07 Dana Corporation Surface hardened sprags and rollers
US5104241A (en) * 1991-04-08 1992-04-14 The Torrington Company Polymer bearing cage with amorphous case
US5165804A (en) * 1991-09-03 1992-11-24 General Electric Company Rolling element bearing having wear resistant race land regions
US5200265A (en) * 1991-04-08 1993-04-06 The Torrington Company Crystalline plastic body with outer amorphous plastic surface layer
US5223203A (en) * 1991-04-08 1993-06-29 The Torrington Company Method for making a polymer part having an amorphous surface layer
US5328277A (en) * 1992-09-24 1994-07-12 The Torrington Company Cage for roller bearings
US6955476B1 (en) * 1999-04-28 2005-10-18 Nsk Ltd. Retainer for rolling bearings
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US4804276A (en) * 1987-02-25 1989-02-14 Skf Gmbh Cage for a rolling bearing
US4878570A (en) * 1988-01-25 1989-11-07 Dana Corporation Surface hardened sprags and rollers
US5104241A (en) * 1991-04-08 1992-04-14 The Torrington Company Polymer bearing cage with amorphous case
US5200265A (en) * 1991-04-08 1993-04-06 The Torrington Company Crystalline plastic body with outer amorphous plastic surface layer
US5223203A (en) * 1991-04-08 1993-06-29 The Torrington Company Method for making a polymer part having an amorphous surface layer
US5165804A (en) * 1991-09-03 1992-11-24 General Electric Company Rolling element bearing having wear resistant race land regions
US5328277A (en) * 1992-09-24 1994-07-12 The Torrington Company Cage for roller bearings
US6955476B1 (en) * 1999-04-28 2005-10-18 Nsk Ltd. Retainer for rolling bearings
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US9945421B2 (en) 2016-07-06 2018-04-17 Regal Beloit America, Inc. Bearing retainer, bearing and associated method
US10151348B2 (en) 2016-07-06 2018-12-11 Regal Beloit America, Inc. Bearing retainer, bearing and associated method
WO2018214876A1 (zh) * 2017-05-25 2018-11-29 山东金帝精密机械科技股份有限公司 轴承保持器喷塑工艺及设备
US11162533B2 (en) 2018-10-22 2021-11-02 Aktiebolaget Skf Rolling bearing
US10605307B1 (en) 2018-11-02 2020-03-31 Regal Beloit America, Inc. Bearing retainer, bearing and associated method

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NL8502656A (nl) 1987-04-16
DE3675331D1 (de) 1990-12-06
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ES2001304A6 (es) 1988-05-01
CA1276962C (en) 1990-11-27
JPS62110023A (ja) 1987-05-21

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